Artist Profile

Diane Maclean

Concepts
My work, which includes site specific public sculpture, sculpture and installation, combines the natural and the man-made with themes largely drawn from nature interpreted through industrial materials and engineering techniques. Multiples, reflection, transparency, movement and light are present. I seek equivalents for elemental movement, the human body, objects in the landscape. In developing ideas on a large scale, transformation occurs.
Influences
Technological advances. Work of scientists researching weather, structure of planet, water. History of places in which a work has been commissioned. Landscape and history of Scotland. Weather, weather research.
Career path
BA Hons Modern Languages, UCL
BA Fine Art, University of Hertfordshire
New Contemporaries, 1986
Sculpture Commission for opening of Stansted Airport, 1991
Many public sculpture commissions including Helsinki Festival 1994; City of Cardiff; City of Dundee; City of Milton Keynes; Jesus College, Cambridge; Chelsea & Westminster Hospital; MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Canada.
Many group and solo exhibitions including 'Lovely Weather' a collaboration with research scientists,
2005 Exhibition at Natural History Museum, London, again collaboration with scientists.
2012 Sculpture purchased from the Cass Foundation for Surrey University and Ekeberg Sculpture Park, Oslo.
2014 Sculpture chosen to be donated by HM the Queen to City of Paris - unveiled 7.6.14 on the Ile de la Cite. It will be permanently located in near the Champs Elysees later in the year.read full statement